Just have stoker ride a century on her single just to get it our of her system . . . and to avoid the comments . . . "oh, but she did it on a tandem!"
Stoker Kay rode her first century back in about 1973 on a Huffy 10-speed with upright bars!
She then got a better single bike (she deserved it!) and rode several more centuries solo.
In 1975 we got into the tandem mode, and since then she has ridden well over a hundred centuries + several double metric centuries on our tandem(s).
She also has 15 El Tour de Tucsons to her credit plus back-to-back centuries and even a 325-miler with 22,000 feet of climbing in one 3-day-weekend.
She did not qualify in a 63-mile event as the 'first female finisher' because: 'she was riding on a tandem' (we placed third)! She bested the next female by 20 minutes and the first male/male tandem duo by 1/2 hour! We averaged 21.5 mph in the first 2 hours of that event. Can assure you she did as much work as the pilot!
Oh, she did get the trophy for the OLDEST woman riding! We still laugh about that one!!!
We are now in our seventies (76/74) and still love riding TWOgether although we quit riding centuries in our late 60s!
Pedal on!
Rudy and Kay/zonatandem